After the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one demand the Obama administration through its Interior Department made of the oil industry as a condition of re-starting deepwater drilling was that a system be constructed which would completely contain a blown-out deepwater well in a worst-case scenario.

The industry – specifically ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell, founded a consortium called the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) for the purpose of satisfying that demand. And today, MWCC announced it has completed an interim well containment response system.

MWCC’s interim system can operate in water depths up to 8,000 feet and has storage and processing capacity for up to 60,000 barrels per day of liquids.  The capping stack has a maximum operating pressure of 15,000 pounds per square inch.  The equipment is located on the U.S. Gulf Coast and it can be at work within 24 hours of a spill.

“The Marine Well Containment Company has successfully developed a solution for rapid well containment response,” said Marty Massey, chief executive officer. “This milestone fulfills acommitment set forth by the four sponsor companies to deliver a rapid containment response capability within the first six months of launching the marine well containment project.”

US Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., (R-Southwest Louisiana) was effusive.

“The completion of the interim containment system is great news for the people of Louisiana, and for American energy production,” Boustany said. “With every advancement in the permitting process, we are one step closer to getting Louisiana workers back to their jobs and revitalizing our economy that was damaged first by the moratorium and now by the defacto moratorium on permitting. We still have much to do until American energy production has fully resumed. I will be there every step of the way to continue putting pressure on the Obama administration and aiding our workers in any way I can.”

“The fight is not over,” Boustany said. “The President has made no signal that he is a fan of American energy producers. In his budget this week, he vowed to tax energy producers, which will have an impact on every man and woman in this country. We will continue to fight the policies of this administration until the hard working folks in Louisiana and throughout the Gulf Coast are back to work.”

MWCC says it’s working on an expanded containment system for use in deepwater depths up to 10,000 feet which has the capacity to contain 100,000 barrels per day of liquid (and 200 million standard cubic feet per day of gas). The expanded system will include a 15 kpsi subsea containment assembly with a three rams stack, dedicated capture vessels and a dispersant injection system.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, whose director Michael Bromwich had a stormy meeting with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) yesterday on the subject of his agency’s stonewalling of drilling permits, had taken the position on Monday that no containment system was available to satisfy its requirement for drilling to be reinstated. At a Feb. 14 energy conference, Bromwich had said…

“it has not been able to fully demonstrate it has the systems in place to respond to a blowout in deep-water,” Michael R. Bromwich said at an offshore energy conference in Houston. “It would be simply irresponsible” to allow deep-water drilling without knowing a blowout similar to the one that led to a massive oil spill last year can be controlled, he said.

It’s unclear whether Bromwich was simply unaware of MWCC’s work on the interim system when he made an announcement that the industry didn’t have one, or whether BOEMRE plans to reject the system.

Either possibility seems discouraging.

If Bromwich was ignorant of MWCC’s progress just three days before the completion of their project it would be evidence of his disengagement from the subject matter his agency is supposed to govern – and it would be consistent, for example, with Vitter’s mention yesterday that he wasn’t aware of a lawsuit filed by an offshore operator alleging the permitting slowdown is a breach of contract on offshore leases let by the Department of Interior.

And if Bromwich knew about the system unveiled today and still made the statements he made on Monday, it’s evidence that BOEMRE may simply be moving the goalposts in an effort to delay deepwater drilling permits as long as possible. His statement to Vitter that “it’s not my job to issue permits” for drilling in yesterday’s meeting would be given greater meaning if this latter possibility surrounding his Monday statement is true.

UPDATE: Jim Adams, president of the Offshore Marine Service Association – whose membership has been absolutely ravaged by the offshore moratorium and the current permit slowdown, had this to say…

The reason oil companies aren’t drilling is because the administration isn’t letting them. Though the administration claimed to have lifted its unlawful moratorium, in order to keep it in effect the Interior Department said Jan. 25 that it was refusing to issue deepwater exploration permits because energy companies hadn’t shown a capability to respond to a massive spill.

What is underreported is that neither Secretary Salazar nor Director Bromwich has ever provided these energy companies with specific language clarifying what the agency meant exactly when it said “demonstrate capacity to respond to a massive spill.” So while the Marine Well Containment Company has announced completion of an initial response system, it does not mean that BOEMRE will issue new permits for deepwater drilling.

Exploration in the Gulf is still paralyzed by this President’s de facto moratorium. With today’s announcement—a concept that started as a
voluntary initiative of several oil companies last year—we now have the delivery of the most expensive and comprehensive spill containment system in the world.~This, along with other safety initiatives implemented by the industry since Macondo, attests to the notion that deepwater drilling in the Gulf should be safer now than ever before.

As a reminder, more than 50,000 wells were drilled safely in the Gulf before the BP spill, and we have confidence that safe deepwater drilling can continue.

UPDATE: The New York Times reports BOEMRE’s response…

“We appreciate Marine Well Containment Company’s significant progress to address this issue,” Melissa Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the ocean energy bureau, said in a statement. “And we continue to encourage them to make their containment system available as quickly as possible to deepwater operators so that new, responsible oil and gas drilling in deepwater can proceed.”

That’s not quite good enough for House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton…

“Completion of the well containment response system is welcome news for the families in the Gulf region who rely on energy production for their livelihoods, but who have remained sidelined since the spill. And ultimately, this is good news for all Americans. The more energy we can produce safely here at home, the more secure and energy-independent our nation will be,” said Upton.

“Last week the Energy and Commerce Committee heard testimony on the effects of Middle East events on U.S. energy markets. What we heard reaffirmed our belief that America needs an all-of-the-above energy policy that takes advantage of all the resources available to us and reduces our reliance on other parts of the world where uncertainty and upheaval can drive up prices and jeopardize access,” said Upton. “Industry rightly invested in this new tool to protect our coastlines and communities from the unlikely threat of a future spill. Now that we have the safety measures in place, it’s time for the Obama administration to let the Gulf get back to work.”

Crossposted from TheHayride.com

More and more, the guy who is coming out of this oil spill looking like a hero is Gov. Bobby Jindal.

That’s a good thing, and a bad thing.

It’s good, because unlike his predecessor, who almost literally couldn’t show less leadership than she did following Hurricane Katrina and who let the entire response and recovery from the storm and the flood devolve into a political dirty bomb both for her and for the White House, Jindal has actually shown some capacity to make a plan and at least attempt to act on it. Jindal will always have his detractors and he’ll always draw criticism – we’re on his case ourselves because we’d like to see him pull a few levers and cause some pain for the White House in an effort to force the feds to get out of the way – but he’s neither paralyzed nor hysterical. He’s in a tough spot but he at least appears up to it so far.

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Get ready to be infuriated, because the Coast Guard and the Corps of Engineers have now put out their response to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to use dredges to build barrier islands as a defense against the Gulf oil spill invading the state’s marshlands.

It’s pathetic. Just pathetic.

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Check out the disconnect here. First, from today’s press conference we have this report from CBS News on the statements of Janet Napolitano, Dick Durbin and Ken Salazar:

Cabinet officials, Senators and a Governor presented a conga line of condemnation against British Petroleum today, while also bolstering the government’s attempts to show that it was doing all it could to keep the oil company’s feet to the fire.

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The slow response from the Corps Of Engineers on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to dredge sand and fill in Louisiana’s barrier islands as a method of keeping oil from the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo spill out of its coastal marshlands is rapidly becoming a major scandal.

Jindal originally proposed the $350 million project last week, with the concept that should oil reach the state’s coastal marshlands the cost of remediating the damage is exponentially higher than to scrub a sandy beach. Rebuilding barrier islands torn apart by coastal erosion, particularly from hurricane activity in the last decade, is the key to accomplishing Jindal’s aim. Much work along those lines has already been accomplished using available material, but to expand the effort will require dredging sand from nearby waterbottoms – and to do that the Governor will need the Army Corps of Engineers to sign off. Ironically, the Corps is saying it can’t give a thumbs-up until after an “environmental assessment” is performed.

Folks in the Bayou State have little patience with the COE in the first place given the negative effect it has had on the state’s coastline with failed levee projects that didn’t protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina and have also effectively wasted valuable river silt from the Mississippi rather than allow nature to distribute it into the marshes. So when projects like the one pictured above which are clearly effective in keeping oil from advancing are held up by government red tape, it’s bound to boil the water around here.

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Did you notice this yesterday? It’s a Rasmussen poll about offshore drilling.

One concern we have heard time and time again since this oil spill started about a month ago from folks in the oil business and connected industries is abject terror that The Left will use the Macondo blowout and spill as a lever from which to shut down offshore drilling. The rather classless cackling from many on that side of the aisle about the death of “Drill, Baby, Drill” has put a good number of conservatives, and a host of Louisiana business people terrified for their livelihoods as a result of the policy possibilities arising from the spill, on the defensive of late. And the moves made by the Obama administration to at least partially deny new offshore leases as well as stack the deck at MMS in ways sure to create hardships for new drilling give some heft to those concerns.

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…you have to more or less suspend disbelief not to recognize that.

But based on various agendas, it seems like that’s what’s going on. Beyond the reactions of left-wing journals, when those sources have reacted to this story at all, we notice that Allahpundit at HotAir.com and Michelle Malkin have both gone out of their way to disparage the idea that the attack had to do with politics.

The attack was political. But, and I think I’ve been clear on this and hopefully in this post I’ll be even clearer, while it was political it doesn’t appear that it was partisan. A distinction like that used to be fairly easily understood.

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This story is being continuously updated here, including video linking an ominous protest at Brennan’s Restaurant to a marxist-anarchist commune with a record of criminal behavior.

It was a beautiful Friday night in downtown New Orleans, the kind of warm, inviting spring evening the locals typically describe in answer to tourist complaints about the oppressive heat and humidity of a South Louisiana summer. And as the soft river breeze permeated the convention district, buoyant conservatives attending the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference ambled in and out of the conference’s venue, the Hilton New Orleans Hotel Riverside.

The city had 4,000 attendees of SRLC in town, and untold thousands more for the French Quarter Fest, an up-and-coming music festival at which such acts as Kermit Ruffins, Rockin’ Dopsie, the Radiators and the Rebirth Brass Band were set to perform. The all-important New Orleans tourist industry, hit hard in recent years for a number of reasons, had a chance to take a large step forward with an eye toward landing major events to add to the 2012 Final Four – including the 2012 Republican Convention, for which a bid is being prepared.

It looked like a great weekend was on the horizon for the Big Easy, a town on its way back from the hell of Katrina some four and a half years in the past. The city had momentum and, relatively, unity – after all, its beloved New Orleans Saints had come from decades of ignominy to capture the Super Bowl. And Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu had captured an amazing 65 percent of the vote in the mayoral election first primary earlier in the spring, offering New Orleans hope that it would find improved leadership after eight long years under the incompetent and divisive Ray Nagin.

But in a pattern so often repeated in its history, what was supposed to be a showpiece weekend for New Orleans became anything but. Violence and controversy would come to overshadow what were otherwise a successful convention and music festival.

That Friday evening, a battle was being prepared. While the Republican Party was planning a $10,000-a-plate fundraiser at one of the city’s legendary French Quarter restaurants hosted by Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Rick Perry of Texas, a group of students, community activists and Marxist revolutionaries plotted a half-mile “second line” march from Lafayette Park to the Hilton Riverside in an effort to protest Jindal’s planned budget cuts in healthcare and education amid the state’s billion-dollar deficit. And while the initial protest outside the convention venue was relatively tame and unremarkable aside from a torrent of profanity in both signs and intonations, more was to come.

The published plans for the protest called for the march to terminate at the Hilton. But some of the organizers had a different agenda, one which steered their group straight for the high-end Republican affair – and what increasingly appears to have resulted in one of the more shocking examples of political violence in recent American history.

The Jindal/Barbour/Perry fundraiser was set at Brennan’s, a famous Royal Street eatery. The contingent of left-wing protestors who made the trip from the Hilton became increasingly vocal and unpleasant upon arriving at the restaurant, to such an extent that even innocent passersby found themselves verbally assaulted.

And some three hours after the trio of Republican governors had departed, 25-year old Alexandra “Allee” Bautsch, a rising star on Jindal’s team in charge of fundraising efforts for his 2011 re-election campaign, and her boyfriend, 28-year old Joe Brown, left Brennan’s on the way to Brown’s car. Two blocks from the restaurant on St. Louis Street, the pair was accosted by a group of three to five men who made “derogatory” comments and, when Brown turned to face the assailants, he was beaten repeatedly – suffering a concussion and multiple injuries to his face. Bautsch fell during the melee, breaking her leg and requiring surgery, though it’s not yet known whether she was pushed or struck by the attackers.

While Hayride sources and others insist that Bautsch and Brown’s attackers bore some relationship to the Brennan’s protestors, Jindal administration spokesman Kyle Plotkin denies that the governor’s staff has any evidence to that effect so far. The investigation of the attack had, as of Monday afternoon, borne little fruit – the New Orleans Police, dealing with a weekend outbreak of violence that saw no less than 18 people shot in incidents unrelated to SRLC throughout the city from Friday to Monday, don’t appear to have many good leads as to who the assailants were in the Brennan’s case and are begging the public for help.

It’s possible the attack was unrelated to the protest outside Brennan’s. It’s also possible the attack was not politically motivated. But given that Bautsch, who lost her purse before she arrived at the hospital, had it and was using it as a pillow as she lay on the street awaiting medical assistance, it does not at this time appear to have been a mugging. The repeated blows suffered by Brown during the attack are inconsistent with a random crime; whoever attacked the pair did so with a purpose and were apparently unafraid of being caught in the act. The hallmarks of a hate crime appear to have been met.

The story is still developing. But while the investigation continues, it is worth noting that research into the organizers of the overall protest uncovers a rather malevolent group of self-described anarchists who are anything but shy about a desire to destroy the capitalist system a gathering of Republicans would wish to celebrate. The central organizers of the second-line march appear to have come from an anarchist commune of sorts called the Iron Rail Book Collective, which calls itself “committed to anarchist, anti-authoritarian, feminist, anti-racist, queer-positive and class-conscious politics, and to providing alternative literature and information to the people of New Orleans.” And members of Iron Rail have boasted of vandalizing banks, studying an infamous Marxist revolutionary guide called “The Coming Insurrection” and, over the weekend, causing “tons of direct confrontation. New Orleans bared its teeth and snarled, and the rich plutocrats shat themselves in fear.”

Given the existence of a revolutionary element at the heart of the protests and the character of the attack on Bautsch and Brown, the guess is that when the case is finally cracked, the word on the street indicating the Brennan’s beatdown was an example of political violence not unlike that suffered by Tea Party protestor Kenneth Gladney in St. Louis last year will be vindicated. And if that vindication comes, it may be time for the Left-dominated mainstream media – which has to date proven itself utterly incurious about the attack – to answer for creating a narrative suggesting that politically-motivated hatred and violence operates predominantly on only one side of the aisle.

Cross-posted at TheHayride.com.

In a 30-minute small press gathering at the Baton Rouge office of U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking Republican Joe Barton (R-Texas) echoed sentiments expressed commonly by conservatives in Obama’s America – the nation is threatened by runaway deficit spending, bad legislation is causing immense problems in the economy and an abrupt shift to the right is coming in November.

But as one might suspect when a member of the Energy and Commerce committee speaks with Louisiana media, the subject of cap-and-trade legislation took center stage. And Barton wasn’t shy about his opinions on that issue.

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At the Hayride, Ryan Booth is doing a terrific job of chronicling developments with respect to the vote count on Obamacare, and our readers interested in the ongoing developments are strongly encouraged to re-visit his post on the subject often. It’s Ryan’s opinion that Obamacare is going to fail, by however small a margin.

I’m not convinced either way. I think at some point the Democrats are going to run out of bribes and threats to sway the remaining holdouts – while they’ve got lots of goodies to throw around in that reconciliation bill which might grease a Matheson or Costa or even Altmire, the longer this goes on the more outrage the American people demonstrate about both how this is done and how bad the policy actually is; they’re already bleeding votes as a result of the bill’s unpopularity and if they can’t get to 216 soon this thing could collapse.

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This from the Associated Press…

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

It’s time to start cashing them in.

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It seems the weekend take from Matt Damon’s new Bush-Lied-People-Died Iraq vehicle Green Zone was just $14.5 million. That’s not a particularly good number for Universal Pictures, which budgeted $130 million for production and sunk another $100 million for distribution on top of that.

Studio executives tell Time Magazine, whose film critic though Green Zone was just swell, that they’ll be enthralled with only losing $110-120 million on the film.

That’s probably a very optimistic expectation.

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If you pay any attention to the financial prognosticators and the economic sites, you’ve inevitably heard the talk about the possibility of a “double-dip recession.” The theory has a number of variants, one of which is that the minute consumer demand begins to rebound, all the money pumped into the economy by the fed will chase too few available goods and massive inflation will come along to choke off the recovery. Stagflation would then be the result, and the economic recovery the country desperately needs will be longer in coming than anyone ever expected.

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While the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce awaits responses to letters it sent to natural gas producers as a precursor to hearings later this month on whether federal regulation is warranted on hydraulic fracturing, Louisiana’s congressional delegation and state legislators are taking a very vigorous and aggressive stance in fighting Washington’s attempts to interfere with the promise of the mammoth Haynesville Shale natural gas play and the coming energy boom it can mean for the state.

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Left out of the election coverage from earlier this week over in Texas is the fact that a Democrat with grassroots support and the ability to bring new voters into the electoral process has won the party’s nomination in a district previously thought to be in play. But what looked like an opportunity to fight a battle against a Republican who won just 53 percent of the vote in the 2008 general election now seems like a runaway. The Democrats aren’t going to stand behind Kesha Rogers, who won 53 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s 22nd district (outside of Houston) primary – things are so bad between the party and its nominee, in fact, that a spokesperson for the Texas Democrats, Kirsten Gray, said she’s not a true Democrat and “I guarantee her campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff.”

Gray’s rather impolite and certainly non-inclusive statements don’t represent much of a big-tent mentality. After all, we’re constantly regaled with admonishments about how the Republican Party needs to broaden its membership; one assumes the Democrats should do the same.

That Rogers happens to be African-American doesn’t factor into her exclusion. Rather, she’s being shunned because she comes from the Lyndon LaRouche camp and ran a primary campaign on impeaching President Obama and in so doing prosecute a war against the British Empire.

OK, she’s a nut. But so what? Being a lunatic or a moron has never been a disqualifier for nomination or even election as a Democrat, particularly in Congress. How else did Alan Grayson, Pete Stark, Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich or Sheila Jackson-Lee get as far as they’ve gotten?

Given the state of the Texas Democrat Party, perhaps they’d like some friendly advice from the other side – it’s important that you guys make an effort to be inclusive. You’ll never get anywhere insisting on ideological purity from all your candidates. After all, Miz Rogers was the people’s choice in the primary; shouldn’t she be given a chance to win by the state’s Democrat machine?

Rogers’ opponent particularly ought to suck it up and support her. Instead, Doug Blatt, the “mainstream Democrat” in the race, was very unpleasant and non-supportive in his concession speech…

“I’m sorry to inform you that we lost.

“The winner, Kesha Rogers, is already claiming on her web site that this means that voters in the 22nd District want to impeach the President.

“I can’t believe that most people who voted for her knew that she wants to do that.

“I do believe that most of them didn’t do any research about the candidates before voting.”

Insulting your base and calling them stupid only points out that you’re a party without ideas. It seems Texas Democrats are due for quite some time in the wilderness; a rump party run by old white men with expired philosophies which don’t resonate with younger, hipper voters.

Right?

from TheHayride.com, and just in case you get curious if you link through, the nutria’s name is Oscar and he’s mulling a run for Secretary of State next year…

“I make no apologies for seeking this provision. I don’t back-up an inch.”

So said Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, who took to the Senate floor today in defense of the Louisiana Purchase – the $300 million deal described as a bribe or political prostitution by her detractors.

Landrieu offered a fiery, indignant speech reacting to more than two months of ridicule and opposition by political opponents for her negotiated vote, denying that she engaged in backroom dealing or that she sold out her vote.

“I don’t need this job badly enough — maybe some people do, I don’t — to throw the people of my state under the bus to protect myself politically,” she said.

“Nothing about this effort was secret — it was public from the very first meeting that happened at the governor’s mansion in January,” Landrieu continued. “It was a broadly supported delegation effort from the beginning. And it was never a condition of my support for the bill.

“There should be some concerns about specific arrangements that were made, or for specific promises of support. This was not one of them. And the record will show that.”

Landrieu’s contention from the beginning was that her action in demanding the $300 million in federal dollars to compensate the state for a funding glitch arising from imperfections in the federal Medicaid formula represented nothing more than doing the bidding of Louisiana’s governor, Bobby Jindal. It is true that Jindal began asking Landrieu and other members of the state’s Congressional delegation for an adjustment in the formula as early as January of 2009, so in that respect Landrieu has a point. However, the Senate health-care bill of which her constituents overwhelmingly disapprove was anything but the first opportunity to address the issue.

The Senator has taken a rather sharp edge against Jindal since the criticism of her dealmaking has arisen, and in today’s speech she was even sharper in expressing anger about his nonchalant reaction to the furor. “It takes guts (to be a leader). Some people have more of that than others,” she spat.

For his part, Jindal continued his policy of noncommittal statements toward Landrieu. He declined to address Landrieu’s comments and wouldn’t defend Landrieu’s Louisiana Purchase deal. He said the Senate health care bill is a bad deal for Louisiana and should be voted down regardless of Landrieu’s $300 million being included – as Jindal and his staff have pointed out, the state could be faced with as much as a billion dollars a year in additional Medicaid costs as a result of the federal government adding millions of lower-income Americans to the rolls and then dumping an unfunded mandate on the states. That ongoing unfunded mandate dwarfs Landrieu’s one-time $300 million score.

Jindal did call the current problem with the FMAP (Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage) formula “the most serious challenge facing our state.”

“I think it is absolutely important for our delegation to continue to work, and our delegation must work across party lines and across chambers to get this done,” he said.

Following the speech, Landrieu told reporters that James O’Keefe, the conservative activist arrested at her New Orleans offices after attempting to do an expose on her staff’s refusal or inability to answer phone calls from angry constituents reacting to the Louisana Purchase, was not the reason she took to the Senate floor.

“What I said about the gentleman that’s rattling off is he should save his excuses for the judge. He’s going to need them.”

“Because that’s where the money is.”

- Willie Sutton, on why he robbed banks (quote may be apochryphal)

Just when you thought the Obama administration had reached the pinnacle of brain-dead, asinine legislation with the idea of exempting unions from “Cadillac plan” taxes on employer-provided health insurance, along comes the biggest flea-bitten dog to date.

Yes, describing today’s rollout by the president of a $90 billion smash-and-grab of America’s bank vaults as the worst yet. Worse than Waxman-Markey, worse than the GM bailouts, worse than the stimulus and even worse than health care. This effervescent turd isn’t on the scale of some of those legislative packages, no doubt, but for sheer demogoguery and counterproductivity this one takes the prize.

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From The Hayride…

From California comes an interesting bit of news on the Bush-era controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research.

Remember stem cells? That was a red-hot issue in the previous decade, as it had all the hallmarks of the classic left-wing meme; the Luddite Christians standing in the way of a glorious scientific revolution due to their quaint and obsolete notions on abortion and their overheated morality.

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As a chairman of a major political party, you’re not supposed to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease. You’re not supposed to predict defeat for your candidates. You’re not supposed to write books purporting to make party policy while criticizing the party’s past on the party’s time. You’re not supposed to say that members of your party are afraid of you.

And you’re definitely not supposed to tell the members to “shut up.”

For all his positive qualities, and he’s not without some of those, Michael Steele has had an “interesting” past several months as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Little surprise, then, that a new site devoted to his ouster as the party’s lead dog has sprung up from the ether.

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It’s going to fail.

Here’s why it’s going to fail…

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